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Show JAMES R. KEENE AS HE 13. Graphic Pen Picture of Great Wall Street Speculator. Here is a pen picture of James R. Keene, the Wall street speculator, 'drawn by a writer in the Cosmopolitan: Cosmopoli-tan: "A man past 60, tall, slender, with a marvelously well-shaped head; hair and beard half gray; bushy eyebrows; eye-brows; fierce, feline eyes cold, with a curious menacing look or gleaming with sardonic humor made restless as a caged tiger by the wear and tear of a lifetime of stock gambling, yet with nerves of steel; cynical in his views of men's motives; possessing a literary style of remarkable lucidity and distinction, yet habitually over-strong over-strong of spoken language; a man of culture, yet a crony of race track ha- bitues; coldly calculating as a Talleyrand, Talley-rand, yet impulsive as a schoolgirl; a surpassingly keen judge of security values, yet often an investor in worthless worth-less shares; possessing the great gift of patience in his campaigns, yet the most dashing operator in Wall street; extravagantly generous with some who serve him and incredibly insensible insen-sible to gratitude with others; often distrustful of disinterested friends, and as often victimized by not over-plausible over-plausible adventurers; full of contradictions contra-dictions as of abilities such is James R. Keene." |